#prepare

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. ↗

— Jim Evans

#baseball #better #candidates #go #go home

My sister is a masseuse, so we trade - she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It's a great system I'd recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#exchange #friend #give #gives #great

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#be prepared #frankly #gets #going #hand

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#compliments #insults #leave #prepared #us

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#happiness #may #prepare #self #should

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#because #better #found #harder #i

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#early #early age #go #homework #i

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#court #court tv #day #end #everything

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#aware #be prepared #deeply #dimension #factor